We walked the narrow streets behind the Cathedral of St. Stephen and met the house where Mozart lived and the University Church built in the fifteenth century by the Jesuits. It is characterized by a very austere interior.

Quite close, in Fleishmarkt road (in 1200, it hosted the meat market), passing byabeautiful Art Nouveau building, you can find a small square with the Greek Church of St. George and the ancient and famous Griechenbeisl Inn, also known with the name Der LiebeAugustin, a famous Viennese balladeer.

The Museum of Sissi (or Sisi Museum) is housed within the Imperial Apartments of Hofburg.The Hoftafel-und Silberkammer Palace hosts the Court Silver and Tableware Museumand, inside the Kaiser’s apartments, also the Sisi Museum.

The Sisi Museum attracts a huge number of visitors, fascinated by the history of the legendary Empress, but it does not contain any historical content as my photo gallery shows.

The museum of the Austrian Crown jewels and clothes of the imperial period offers a rich variety of belongings of the Houseof Habsburg. The collection dates back to the Holy Roman Empire period andperfectly represents the pompof the period.

Even this museum is inside the Hofburg, the Imperial Palace in Vienna, and more precisely it is located in the Schatzkammer, the Imperial Treasury building.

We started again the visit of Vienna fromthe Votivkirche(Votive Church), not particularly beautiful. It is the Church that was built by Emperor Franz Joseph to remember the place of his attempted assassination in 1853.

Then we visited the Town Hall (NeuesRathaus) a majestic neo-Gothic building in front of which there are the Volksgartengardens with the Empress Elizabeth Monument(Elisabeth-Denkmal). Quite close there is the imposing Burgtheater(Court Theatre)whose façade is enriched by dramatic poets’ busts.

From the Votive Church to the Parliament: beyond the Ring you meet the Parliament Building in Vienna, in neoclassical style, which recalls Greek architecture.

We continued along the Ringstraße (Ring Road) of Vienna to admire, first, the monument to Maria Theresa (Maria-Theresien) and then the statue of Prince Eugene placed in front of Neu Burg. In the back gardens there is Mozart’s statue and, few steps further, that of Goethe.

We could not miss a pause at the famous SacherCafé before continuing on the Ring to admire the originalSecession-style pavilions, by O.Wagner.

Opposite there is the Baroque Karlskirche (1737), dedicated to Saint Charles Borromeo.

In the front gardens, there is the monument dedicated to Johannes Brahms.

Hundertwasser and Stadtpark: we made a stop in the third district of Vienna. We left the hotel by taxi to reach the Hundertwasser Village, a bizarre apartment block, designed by the homonymous Viennese architect.

We have to say that his work gave us the impressionof something “already seen”.

Not far we visited the Stadtpark, large park in the city centre, famous for several monuments dedicated to Austrian musicians and artists, such as the musicians: Franz Schubert, Johann Strauss and Ludvik Beethoven.

In the afternoon we went towards Karlplatz and, after admiring the bronze monument of the triumvir Mark Antony, we reached the Secession Building that takes its name from the Austrian Artists Association which belonged to the movement of the “Vienna Secession”.

Our attention was immediately attracted by the golden dome, work of Klimt. Just below there is the famous motto”To every age its art, to every art its freedom” .

Inside, in a basement room, it is displayed the “Beethoven Frieze” (Beethovenfries), paintedby Klimt. The frieze was almost destroyed during the Second World War and now we can see only the parts that were saved.

In the same street, there is the Naschmarkt, the busiest market in Vienna. At the entrance there are many restaurants, then fruit and vegetablesstalls follow.

We arrived to the MuseumsQuartier of Vienna. The largest European museum complex of contemporary art- theMuseumsQuartier – was created restoring and modifying royal palaces and building new palaces (i.e. see the Mumok built in grey basalt stone)

In the last two photos of the gallery, I show the ceilings of two porticoes modernly painted.